On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:02 am, Lucky Leavell wrote:
3. Suggestion: When SuSE builds binaries, why not go for an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach, such as including MySQL and PostgreSQL support, thus enabling them to remain properly updateable via YoU? (When I rebuilt courier-imap to include MySQL, it created an additional binary RPM: courier-imap-mysql-3.0.7-1.suse920.i586.rpm which seems to be a good approach should I decide to install an "everything but the kitchen sink" binary but do not want, for example, MySQL support.)
Try Gentoo if you want easily customized packages. :) With regards to the RPM thing, I'd generally just change the name in the .spec file to courier-danny or similar, which both served to denote that the package was my customized version and to protect if from name conflicts with YOU. --Danny